Edward D. Grosvenor

Edward Daniel Grosvenor (18 May 1878-14 July 1950) was a Fascist Party of America leader and founder. In 1908, he ran on the party's vice-presidential ticket with Charles McDuke as president.

Biography
Edward Daniel Grosvenor was born in Columbia, South Carolina on 18 May 1878 to a family of former plantation owners. His family lost their plantations after the Emancipation Proclamation, and Grosvenor would find that he was unable to become a farmer due to the lack of labor. Grosvenor became the editor of the Emancipation Revocation newspaper, a white nationalist publication that advocated a return to a society of slavery. In 1900, the young Grosvenor helped in founding the Fascist Movement for Oppressed Americans, a fascist political movement that supported the rise of white corporations in the governance of the United States; Grosvenor believed that socialism and liberalism were the same belief, and that conservatism would maintain the present state of society rather than return it to its slavery days. Grosvenor ran for Vice-President of the United States as Charles McDuke's running mate in several elections, starting in 1908, but the pair failed to win a significant amount of votes. After the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and the start of World War II, the fascists lost popularity.